Foxtrot Project - 2. How can ballroom dancing enhance socialization and develop personality?

2. How can ballroom dancing enhance socialization and develop personality?

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it beats sitting on your backside watching Wheel of Fortune
well, if you can dance youd be alot more confident in going up to the girl youve been eyeing at the party to ask her to dance and um, well...socialize....
You know the saying that says "It takes two to tango" well as a ballroom dancer you have the opportunity to socialize with your partner and who knows something beautiful can develop from that.
Well I take a ballroom class and we rotate around the room so we meet all the people in the class and when it first started we had to inroduce ourself to each person and tell them something about us before going to the next person...Those that are more shy start to feel more comfortable i notice after getting to know all.
Ballroom dancing is an excellent way to meet new people, and to become more comfortable approaching and talking to new people, on and off the dance floor. Learning a skill increases your self-confidence, and you become an encourager to others. You can become less shy, or at least better able to overcome your shyness, when you need to ask someone to dance--this is for women as well as men, because it is appropriate for women to ask men to dance, or even sometimes another woman if you know how to lead!
In other social settings, some people are unsure of themselves and/or influenced, perhaps even without realizing it, by a fear of rejection. The custom of ballroom is that there is no rejection. It is considered immeasurably rude to decline a dance (unless there's a distinct reason to do so, in which case the only proper way to decline is to offer the next dance instead). The end of each piece is always accompanied by a "thank you" and some compliment. The structure, by repetition, takes the shy person out of his cell and almost forces socialization, and the repetition resets the attitude,carrying over outside the dance milieu.